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The Israeli General Election of 1996 – Another Upheaval?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

David Capitanchik
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The Israeli General Election of 1996 Has Been Described as a ‘referendum’ on the Middle East peace process, the central issue in the campaign. However, important as it was, the outcome of the election was determined not so much by the issue of peace, as by a change in the electoral law providing for the direct election of the prime minister. On 29 May, for the first time, Israelis went to the polls to elect a prime minister as well as a new Knesset and the result was yet another upheaval in Israeli political life.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , October 1996 , pp. 449 - 466
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1996

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